Infected, Part 3: On the Front Lines of the Next Pandemic

Is Canada ready to handle the sort of super virus that has many scientists worried? In the final part of INFECTED, VICE visits The Ottawa Hospital's "Ebola Room" and speaks with Dr. Virginia Roth about what protocols are in place to handle deadly infectious diseases. We also speak with German physicist Dirk Brockmann, who studies human mobility patterns to find out how infectious diseases spread in our globalized world.

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Charlie Eppes and Nancy Hackett use “Dirk Brockmann’s work with human mobility networks” to predict the location of a future robbery in this episode of the popular CBS show. Charlie finds fractional diffusion equations fascinating.